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| Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use |
| # Friday May 2 2008 at 09:45 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
The United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation’s Access to Communications Publication Series produces studies that give governments, NGOs an...continue reading |
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| M-Gov and mobile phones for development |
| # Friday May 2 2008 at 09:43 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
SanjanaHattotuwa Sustainable and equitable development is severely undermined when citizens do have not have access to a voice. When basic human needs are marginalised or suppressed, the resulting emergence of communal violence in the negotiation of difference and grievances stunts economic growth - sometimes for generations. Today, the exponential growth in the use and ownership of mobile phones offers renewed hope of higher economic development. A well known example is the finding in...continue reading |
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| Final Report on the Global Symposium +5 on Information for Humanitarian Action |
| # Friday May 2 2008 at 09:41 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
DearColleagues,
It is my pleasure to share with you an advance electronic copy of the Final Report on the Global Symposium +5 on Information for Humanitarian Action, held last October in Geneva (www.reliefweb.int/symposium). This report is the result of the insights and expertise of more than 300 participants who took part in what was the largest and most diverse ever collaboration of humanitarian information professionals, and a milestone in building the community of practice on hu...continue reading |
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